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Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

From Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive
Date 2022-03-06 21:30 +0100
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On 03/06/2022 06:44 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 03/06/2022 05:43 AM, songbird wrote:
>> Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> Currently I use
>>>> dd if=netinst.iso bs=64M of=/dev/sdb
>>>
>>> I would like way to copy it such that:
>>> 1. a legacy BIOS could launch it
>>> 2. Gparted would not complain about block size
>>> 3. there would be at least two partitions usable misc files
>>
>>
>>    one of the nice people here posted a program for doing this
>> called make_isombr_part (or something similar).  see if you
>> can find it.  archive search for this group Feb-Mar 2017.
>> [SNIP]
> 
> First Duckduckgo hit is
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg01268.html
> 
> Post by Thomas Schmitt.
> 
> As tonight's weather is scheduled to be flooding rain followed by 
> unspecified amount of snow I'll have time to chase down any updates to 
> it and do initial experiments with the ventoy package suggested by Joe.

Definite snow has been replaced by possible tornadoes.
The description of ventoy is beginning to intrigue me.
I'll pursue that venue.

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Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-06 11:10 +0100
  Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2022-03-06 12:00 +0100
    Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-06 12:40 +0100
  Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2022-03-06 13:10 +0100
    Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-06 13:50 +0100
      Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-06 21:30 +0100
    Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-03-06 14:20 +0100
      Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-03-06 14:20 +0100
      Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-06 15:50 +0100
        Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-03-06 17:30 +0100
          Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-06 21:30 +0100
      Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2022-03-06 21:00 +0100
      Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2022-03-06 21:00 +0100

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